Event: Beer/Wine
Tasting
Location: Your House!
Everyone
keeps asking us when are we going to do another wine/beer tasting, and lately,
our response has been “When do you want us over!?” Sure, we’ve done the tastings at various locations
– going through the motions of booking a facility, planning the event, picking
the wines/beers, and then crossing our fingers that everyone who expressed and
interest actually shows up! What we’ve been doing lately that has been a
huge success is In-Home Wine/Beer
Tastings. For less than the per-person price for our normal public
tastings, we will come to the privacy of your home, bring the stemware, tasting
sheets, wine/beer theme of your choice, and give a first class presentation to
you and 12 guests of your choice (back to that “drink with friends”
concept!). You get to try wines/beers that you’re interested in with people you actually want to drink with and at the end of the evening, you
have nowhere to drive! We give our presentation leaving the open bottles
(or more if you need) and sneak out the back as the party gets rolling – you
drop off the glasses to the store the next day! It’s a great time and a
party that everyone is talking about for weeks! We’ve even done corporate
“seminars” in this format as well (unique way of entertaining clients).
The cost is $175 for 12 people and an extra $100 for up to 24 people – less
than our average public tastings!
Beer Tasting Topics
10-12 different beers based on any of the
following themes:
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Beer Flavor/Style
Profiles 101
(The basics from mild to hearty)
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Pick-A-Craft-Brewery (ie. Beers of Rogue,
Founders Bell’s, Stouts, Victory, etc.)
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Beers of Michigan (Highlighting some
of Michigan’s finest)
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Beers of England
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Beers of Scotland
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Beers of Europe –
General Tour (German,
English, Irish, Dutch, French, etc.)
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Beers of the World (Turkey,
Philippines, Russia, Spain, Austria etc.)
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Beers of Belgium (Additional charge
for this tasting)
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Beers of Germany
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Beers for Hop-Heads
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Style Tasting – IPAs
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Style Tasting –
Stouts
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Style Tasting – Pale
Ales
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Style Tasting –
Lagers
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Style Tasting –
Pilsners
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Style Tasting – Amber
Ales
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Style Tasting –
Porters
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Style Tasting Wheat
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Seasonal Tasting – June through
August/ Summer Seasonals
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Old World vs. New
World
(we compare and contrast styles of beer, ie. English Porter versus a U.S. craft
brewer like Arcadia’s Porter).
-
A Harvest of Beer (Fruit/herb based
beer)
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Dark & Delicious (A mix of dark
styles)
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Perfectly Pale (A mix of Pale
styles)
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There’s What in My Beer? (A fun mix of unique
styles of beer. Things like Seaweed Ale, Chili Beer, Pine Ale, Chocolate Beer,
Raison Beer etc.)
-
High Octane (Beers with an
alcohol content of 8% - 14%)
Wine Tasting Topics
6-8 different wines based on any of the
following themes:
-
Wine 101 Basic Flavor
Profiles
(We’ll compare and contrast the gambit – from
light white to hearty red)
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Wine 101 – The Art of the “Swirl, Smell, Sip”
(How much to properly pour into the glass,
swirling and why, sipping and how)
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Wine 101 – Basic Food Pairings
(Drinking what you like is always the rule,
however, there are reasons certain wines show better with certain foods)
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Wine 101 – Wines for Summer
(From pool-side whites to reds for foods from
the grill)
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Wine 101 – Wines for the Holidays
(Popular wines for popular holiday dishes)
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Wine 101 – Wines for Entertaining
(A good assortment of various styles to have
on hand for those who like to entertain)
- Wine 101 –
The Joy of Bubbles!
(There’s more to bubbles than just Champagne,
and some tremendous value in other
sparkling
wines)
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Wine 101 – The Many Faces of Chardonnay!
(Chardonnay can have many different styles
that taste dramatically different based on how and where it was made.)
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Wine 101 - “Que Syrah/Shiraz!”
(Syrah and
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Wine 101 – Understanding European Wine Labels
(If European wines are so great, why don’t we
drink more of them as opposed to CA or Australian wines? Confusing
labels! We’ll help navigate through it)
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Wine 101 – “Italians, Super-Tuscans, Sicilians – Whadda
‘bout it!?”
(There of literally 100’s of different
Italian grapes out there – we’ll introduce you to a few nice Italians!)
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Wine 101 – Wines from Down Under
(
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Wine 101 – Dessert Wines and Port – Who needs
cheesecake!?
(Dessert wines are so overlooked these days
in the
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Wine 101 –
(Spanish wines are getting some great and
well-deserved press lately, we’ll cover some of their major growing regions)
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Wine 101 – Corks vs. Twist-off Caps? Screw It!
(The war is waging, but pretentious ignorance
is the only thing corks have in this battle, and their war will be lost
– we’ll explain!)